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This apk is for astrophotography with your phone. You can take pictures with long exposure times like classical astrophotography with a DSLR or CCD/CMOS camera. DeepSkyCamera takes pictures of the stars including a plan. You take the pictures in RAW format. Android device uses the format DNG which can be processed with the well-known stacking tool. Astrophotography is not a 1 click solution and you could familiar with astronomy and astrophotography. The apk is for astronomers who know what is a RAW file, what is stacking tool and how to postprocess an photo. The apk is NOT a 1 click solution for beautiful pictures without any work. This apk helps astronomers and astrophotographers to take the photos. You need knowledge about astrophotography and for some photos you need a telescope. The smartphone must help RAW mode and must help manual settings. The apk checks the help of RAW and manual settings during startup. Most of the cheaper phones doesn't help RAW and manual settings (like Samsung A and J, Huawei P10 lite). High end phones (Samsung S, Huawei P9, P10 and P20, LG G4 to G7) help RAW. You can take light, flats, bias and dark frames. Its very related to take pictures with a classical DSLR oder CCD/CMOS camera. After that you can do the post-processing with another stacking tool as well as with another tool for photo processing. App can focus automatically to infinity, hyperfocal and of course manual focus. The maximum ISO depends on the camera sensor. Most sensors limiting the ISO value to 800. You can kind in a higher value but the sensor wil set it to maximum ISO level of the sensor. LG G supports ISO until 6400, Google Pixel until 12800. Its the same for the exposure time. Most of the sensors limiting the maximum exposure time to 30 seconds. You can kind in a higher value but the sensor sets it to the highest possible value. Die LG G and Huawei P supports up to 30 seconds. DeepSkyCamera takes only pictures. The apk is not designed for the post-processing. The sample picture shows constellation Ursa Major with the LG G4: 256 light frames each 30 sec which results in nearly 2 h exposure time in total. 170 dark framesan 100 flat frames applied. Processed with extra tool. The second and third pic shows Cygnus taken with LG G4 and LG G6. The latest pic shows M31 with LG G6 (M33 is on the bottom, double star cluster and Cassiopeia upper left). You can use a easy portable mount for travel purposes like iOptron SkyTracker, AstroTrac or StarAdventurer. You place a ballhead on the top and add a clip from a little smartphone tripod. With the preview function (which is automatically visible after begin) you can adjust the ballhead according to the brightest stars. A manual is here: https://www.deepskycamera.de/manual/DeepSkyCamera_manual_en.pdf